enchondromatosis


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Related to enchondromatosis: chondromyxoid fibroma, Maffucci syndrome

enchondromatosis

[‚en‚kän·drō·mə′tō·səs]
(medicine)
A rare disorder principally involving tubular bones, especially those of the feet and hands, characterized by hamartomatous proliferation of cartilage in the metaphysis, indistinguishable in single lesions from enchondromas. Also known as chondrodysplasia; dyschondroplasia; Ollier's disease.
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3) The most common type of enchondromatosis is Ollier disease-enchondromas of the long bones sparing the spine and skull-which occurs in 1/100,000 patients.
4) In fact, 10% of patients with enchondromatosis harbor a mutation in the PTH1R receptor; these mutations were shown to decrease the function of the receptor by 30%.
Maffucci syndrome: an interesting case and a review of the literature
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